Knorr – Seize the flavour in your meals
Working as an Italian cookery tutor, demonstrator and food writer I tend to steer away from 'Cheats ingredients' within the kitchen. I enjoy making most dishes from scratch and by hand. However is this really possible seven days a week when I work full time and have a family (four [...]
NOSH – Taywell Ice Cream
Permission to indulge, permission granted - Introducing new Taywell's NOSH, no added sugar ice cream and sorbet range.It's Spring and the sun is shining, the bulbs are peaking and popping through the ground and I have tulips sitting on my kitchen window ledge. Surly it's time to stock up the [...]
Divo Italiano – Award winning, Italian cheese with a unique twist.
Divo Italiano offers an award winning range of Italian cheeses and is proud to have the backing and support of cheese lover Aldo Zilli. Aldo is an award wining celebrity chef with many delicious string to his bow. Divo Italiano currently offers a range of five Italian cheeses. From a creamy cubed [...]
Aldo Zilli – San Carlo – Cicchetti
Cicchetti - some may call this style of eating (Italian tapas) , however I like to call it 'food to share', a style of cooking, and eating where diners are able to try a vast variety of small full of flavour and to be honest mouth-watering Italian dishes. The San [...]
Potato gnocchi – delicate pillows….
These little potato dumplings are delicious and are an alternative to pasta. Gnocchi that are freshly made by hand are just delicious. Light on the stomach and filling. I find gnocchi that you can purchase in supermarkets are dense and very heavy, this is how I was put off eating [...]
www.carmelas-kitchen.com
Finally I would like to introduce you to my beautiful new website for Carmela's Kitchen, www.carmelas-kitchen.comThis delicious website is where all classes and events will be posted. Make this Italian website your first port of call. My original blog (www.carmelaskitchen.blogspot.com) can still be accessed through the new website too. Here [...]
Delicious Borough Market, London
There's nothing better than a fresh produce market, and I have visited many, however I just could not stop eating when I had a day out at Borough Market. Fresh vibrant fruit and colourful mouth-watering vegetables, many mushroom varieties, bread, oils, cakes, fish, game and so much more. I felt [...]
Knorr Gravy Pots, Product of the year in the gravy and stock category!
Knorr are very excited to announce that their innovative gravy pots have been awarded product of the year in the gravy and stock category. I'm not surprised to be honest. They are delicious, quick pots that take away and remove the hassle out of making gravy from scratch on a [...]
Aldi Supermarket……leading the way in delicious fruity wine…
Aldi may not be one of the main four supermarkets that we know in the UK, but it seems to be steadily creeping up there with the best of them. Not only offering a huge range of UK based fruit, veg and meat but also a cracking variety of vino [...]
In my house it’s all about pasta, pasta, pasta….
On goes my apron, out comes my oversized wooden board, hand cranked pasta machine, bag of flour and jug of water. Full steam ahead and off I go. Just like my Nonna Carmela who still makes pasta today, however she seems to have the speed at 85 years young and [...]
Antipasti demonstration evening 1st March, with guest crustacean expert Adrian Bartlett
On the evening of Saturday 1st March from 7pm, I will be launching my fifth large Carmela's Kitchen cooking demonstration. Antipasti with a scrumptious difference. Now you are probably thinking, 'antipasti, well that's just parma ham and melon', you are very wrong. I will be sharing lots of delicious and [...]
‘Gastronomy of Italy’ by Anna Del Conte
I collect cookery books as I find that they are alive and colourful with knowledge, recipes, memories and stories. To aspire and become one of the most highly regarded Italian Food writers in the world would be my Italian dream. Anna Del Conte is widely recognised as a fabulous cook, [...]